... To pass a resolution supporting the Dominion Virginia coal burning power plant. This resolution isn't binding on anyone legally and approval from state agencies still is necessary. The Wise Supervisors were unable to even obtain a motion to bring the resolution to a vote after citizen outcry Thurday night. So they had a "emergency meeting" yesterday where citizen comments were not permitted to pass it.
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ARTICLE LINKED AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THIS DIARY. IT IS SHOCKING!
UPDATE by Lowell: See the "flip" for an angry email I received from a citizen of SWVA who is outraged at what Wise County did.
My fellow Americans, we need leaders who are, as my mother would say, full of honesty, integrity, and are forever thinking of how we treat our fellow man. And they have none of that! No, not a one.Our reps, and possibly others(who were those 50 mentioned in one article?) traveled to Richmond to testify on Dominion's behalf and become Dominion's mouth piece on Dominion's dime and then quite frankly lied about it. It was accomplished in an underhanded way, very dishonest; how can the people of Wise County survive and ever progress with such distasteful leaders? There is no salvation for those who are rotten at their very core and our leadership is. It is no small wonder that so many members of the Board display weight gains after they are elected.
Dominion did not pay this bill; their ratepayers did--Dominion told them how to spend it. All Dominion customers should be telling Tom Ferrell they don't want their power bill receipts to be spent on buying "mouthpieces" to promote something that will aid in the destruction of all Virginians in the end.
I am, yes, furious. When will we call a spade a spade?
Now that I think of it, did they pay for the president of SW Community College? How many others?
We have not been paid to speak; we are actually trying to use our brains and struggle to arrive at a conclusion--our leaders in Wise County depend on businesses to tell them what to think and what to say!
Would you sell your birthright for the promise of a bowl of soup? Well, your leaders will, as long as their selling yours, not their own!
You all might be interested to know that Robby Robbins was the only board member to give a short speech before the vote.
All voted and the vote was unanimous!
More on this travesty from the Bristol Herald Courier, "Wise County, Va., supervisors hold 'emergency' meeting to approve power plant support."
If I were a rich man, I'd dump more money into the next local election than these politicians had ever seen.
If I were a powerful man, I'd waltz into the SCC like all these shameful elected officials (Kilgore, Puckett, the rest...) and make them do the right thing.
But I'm just a student, so I'll just keep on blogging.
I wonder what the Arlington Gazette will have to say about this. No doubt heap praise on the Wise Co. BOS for their brilliance and tell us again how none of this Arlington's (or Fairfax's) business. ...rolling eyes...